If you mean datasets that don't necessarily relate to language, just as an
introductory-level thing to engage interest in data, you might try opinion poll data
on various topics. Polling organisations often release their datasets for people to
play around with, e.g. http://www.pewresearch.org/download-datasets/.
Dave
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On 01/05/2018 11:47, Kirk Hazen wrote:
> Dear Folk,
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> I will be teaching a class where I have students who say they can't read graphs. I
> figure that if I can get them to see relationships in data that they find
> interesting, and make some graphs, it might help them better see relationships in
> language data.
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> Do y'all know about publicly available, relatively simple datasets that might
> interest humanities majors?
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> Thanks for your help.
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> Best,
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> Kirk
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